**Cal has just given Rose the "Heart of the Ocean." and has just said, "Now open your heart to me Rose", where's the Madonna music?? ;)  **

CAMERA begins to TRACK IN ON ROSE. Closer and closer, during the following:

OLD ROSE (v.o.)
Of course his gift was the only to reflect light back onto himself, to illuminate the greatness that was Caledon Hockley. Its was a cold stone...a heart of ice.

Finally, when Rose's eyes FILL FRAME, we MORPH SLOWLY to her eyes as they are now...transforming through 84 years of life...

INT. KELDYSH IMAGING SHACK

Without a cut the wrinkled, weathered landscape of age has appeared around her eyes. But the eyes themselves are the same.

OLD ROSE
After all these years, I can still feel it closing around my throat like a dog collar.

THE CAMERA PULLS BACK to show her whole face.

OLD ROSE (continued)
I can still feel it's weight. If you could have felt it, not just seen it...

LOVETT
Well, that's the general idea, my dear.

BODINE
So let me get this right. You were gonna kill yourself by jumping off the Titanic? (he guffaws) That's great!

LOVETT (warningly)
Lewis...

But Rose laughs with Bodine.

BODINE (still laughing)
All you had to do was wait two days!

Lovett, standing out of Rose's sightline, checks his watch. Hours have passed. This process is taking too long.

LOVETT
Rose, tell us more about the diamond. What did Hockley do with it after that?

ROSE
I'm afraid I'm feeling a little tired, Mr. Lovett.

Lizzy picks up on the cue and starts to wheel her out.

LOVETT
Wait! Can you give us something to go on, here. Like who had access to the safe. What about this Lovejoy guy? The valet. Did he have the combination?

LIZZY
That's enough.

Lizzy takes her out. Rose's old hand reappears at the doorway in a frail wave goodbye.

CUT TO:

EXT. LAUNCH AREA/ KELDYSH DECK- NIGHT

As the big hydraulic jib swings one of the MIR subs over the water. Lovett walks as he talks with Bobby Buell, the partners' rep. The weave among deck cranes, launch crew, sub maintenance guys.

BUELL
The partners are pissed.

BROCK (Lovett)
Bobby, buy me time. I need time.

BUELL
We're running thirty thousand a day, as we're six days over. I'm telling you what they're telling me. The hand is on the plug. It's starting to pull.

BROCK
Well tell the hand I need another two days! bobby, Bobby, Bobby...we're close! I smell it. I smell ice. She had the diamond on...now we just have to find where it wound up. I just gotta work her a bit more. Okay?

Brock turns and sees Lizzy standing behind him. She has overheard the last part of his dialogue with Buell. He goes to her and hustles her away from Buell, toward a quiet spot on the deck.

BROCK
Hey, Lizzy. I need to talk to you for a second.

LIZZY
Don't you mean work me?

BROCK
Look, I'm running out of time. I need your help.

LIZZY
I'm not going to help you browbeat my hundred and on year old grandmother. I came down here to tell you to back off.

BROCK (with undisguised desperation)
Lizzy...you gotta understand something. I've bet it all to find the Heart of the Ocean. I've got all my dough tied up in this thing. My wife even divorced me over this hunt. I need what's locked inside your grandma's memory. (he holds out his hand). You see this? Right here?

She looks at his hand, palm up. Empty. Cupped, as if around an imaginary shape.

LIZZY
What?

BROCK
That's the shape my hand's gonna be when I hold that thing. You understand? I'm not leaving here without it.

LIZZY
Look, Brock. She's going to do this her way, in her own time. Don't forget, she contacted you. She's out here for her own reasons, God knows what they are.

BROCK
Maybe she wants to make peace with the past

LIZZY
What past? She never once, not once, ever said a word about being on the Titanic until two days ago.

BROCK
Then we're all meeting your grandmother for the first time.

LIZZY (looks at him hard)
You think she was really there?

BROCK
Oh yeah. Yeah, I'm a believer. She was there.

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